sending data from an 8051 development board to Excel through serial communication

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Hello

1. As my 8051 development board is non an NI product, still can i communicate with LabVIEW?

2. If my above question is possible, i want to store the data that m receving into Excel sheet. is it possible? other then write to spreadsheet VI file, what are the other controls required to create my program?

3. is any other hardware required other then my 8051 development board???

Plz help me... m a beginer

[rodmar]

Hi,

You can make the entire solution with serial interface. It is not required to implement a protocol or anything, you just send the ASCII character trhough serial to your PC running LV program.

To write to Excel, you'll use ActiveX. Try looking at "ActiveX Event Callback for Excel" LV example (Go at Help -> Find Examples...).

Make sure VISA is installed in your computer so that serial interface works. It's free to download at NI website.

Regards,

Mariana.